Improvement in cotton-seed planters



J. ROSS.

Cotton Planter.

Patenwd April 6, 1858.

'N- PETERS, EHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. D.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' JAMES ROSS, OF MIDWAY, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-SEED PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 19,874, dated April 6, 1855.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JAMES Ross, of Midway, in the county of Barbour and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part of this specification,in the several figures of which similar characters of reference denote the same part.

Figure 1 is a top View of the planter. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the hopper and agitator-shaft on a larger scale than is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 is a view of the agitator.

The nature of my invention consists in combining with the discharge-plate an agitator having a combined vertical and oscillating movement for the purpose of more thoroughly preventing the packing of the cotton-seed in the hopper. I

In the drawings, F isthe frame. T T are the discharge-tubes, and H H are the hoppers. At the bottom of the hopper is a perforated plate, a, resting upon a cross-piece, b, and secured to an upright shaft, 0, running upward through the hopper and held by brace 11 at top. The plate a is connected by a rod, 6, with a lever, f, vibrated by means of rods h h, extending forward andalternately acted upon by studsi on wheel W. This vibration of lererf causes the plates a a, and with them their shafts c c, to vibratein their bearings b d. Around shaft 0 is a hollow shaft, m, from which extend any desired number of arms n, reaching to the inner faceof the hopper,ornearly thereto. These arms have depending teeth 9, as shown in Fig. 4. Upon the side of the hopper are two projectingflanges, Z 1, between which the extremity of one of the arms enters, causing the hollow shaft to rise and fall as it is rotated backward and forward by reason of its connection with shaft 0 by feather w and'slot 'u.' This compound motion of the agitator tends to loosen the seed and prevent it from packing and obstructin g the discharge.

I claim-- The combination of the hollow shaft and arms, flanges l l, shaft 0, discharge-plate a,

J AS. ROSS.

Witnesses J AMES MCCORMICK JOHN H. LESTER. 

